Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800

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3.50

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Price

AU$1411.00

Review Date

Monday, 25th of June, 2007

What's Hot

Was reliable when overclocked to 3.47GHz, Works in all current 965 chipset-based motherboards

What's Not

Not much of a speed improvement over the QX6700

The Final Word

With a default speed of 2.93GHz, this is currently the fastest desktop quad-core CPU on the market. At its default speed, the QX6800 didn't perform much faster than the QX6700, but we were able to overclock it reliably up to 3.47GHz, where we observed much better gains in performance. It's definitely a high-end CPU for a professional, a gamer or an enthusiast user, and it has a high-end price tag to match.

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